Olympos (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος Olumpos) A mountain in Thessalia (Thessaly in northern Greece) and its god. Olympos was the home of the gods.
He was an Ouros (singular of Ourea, the mountain gods), and along with his brothers and sisters they were the offspring of Gaia.
Mythology[]
The only source we have of this figure being a Deity is an account from Philostratus the Elder's Imagines, where he is being anthropomorphized:
| “ | ...he slips out of his swaddling clothes and begins to walk at once and descends from Olympus. The mountain rejoices in him—for its smile is like that of a man—and you are to assume that Olympus rejoices because Hermes was born there. | ” |